Quotes with life

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  • George Eliot What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Wallace Stevens What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • George Eliot What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Joseph Brodsky What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Buddha What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Ben Gibbard What we aspired to in 1998, we have wildly surpassed. And I know we all feel incredibly grateful and lucky this band has been able to have the life that it's had.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Leo Buscaglia What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • Bob Taft What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We are a state of cities, small towns and growing suburbs where life is affordable and destinations within reach. There is no better place to raise a family.
    Bob Taft
    American politician and attorney (1942 - )
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  • Louis Armstrong What we play is life.
    Louis Armstrong
    American trumpeter, composer and singer (1901 - 1971)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Sydney Smith What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Bill Gates What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Alexander Pope What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Julia Roberts What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: I'm marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day.
    Julia Roberts
    American actress (1967 - )
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  • Satchel Paige What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.
    Satchel Paige
    African-American baseball player (1906 - 1982)
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  • Chief Seattle Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Oprah Winfrey Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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